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NET’s Bates to retire, NPR’s Seabrook departs, Bodarky elected PRNDI prez, and more…
Bates, a producer/director who rose through the ranks to become network chief in 1996, announced his retirement plans June 22, initiating the second ...Association of Public Radio Engineers Awards
Mike Starling received the Meritorious Service Award for spearheading technological innovation within NPR and at its stations. Starling, executive director of the Technology ...Jim Packard, announcer of Whad’Ya Know?
Jim Packard, longtime announcer on public radio’s Whad’Ya Know?, died June 18 at a New York City hospital. He was 70. Michael Feldman, host ...Carole Nolan, led WBEZ’s bid for independence
Carole Nolan, who founded WBEZ-FM in Chicago at a time when few women held top management jobs in public broadcasting, died July ...Live From Lincoln Center creator departs, McGee replaces Fornatale at WFUV, and more…
John Goberman has produced more than 200 live national telecasts since launching the PBS performance series more than three decades ago. Goberman ...Longtime Sesame Street writer dies
Judy Freudberg, who wrote for Sesame Street for almost 40 years, died June 10 of a brain tumor, according to Hollywood Reporter. She was 63. Freudberg ...Alabama PTV’s Jon Beans host, producer, dies at 50
Jon Beans, a reporter and host on Alabama Public Television for more than 20 years, died June 13 at a Montgomery hospital ...Three trophies put WNYC atop pubmedia’s Murrow winners
WNYC led public media in the 2012 national Edward R. Murrow Awards announced June 12 by the Radio Television Digital News Association. ...Pioneering progressive rock DJ Pete Fornatale dies at 66
Pete Fornatale, who got his start at the Fordham University’s WFUV-FM as an undergrad in 1964 and went on to become an ...Mark Pearson, Market to Market host, dies at 54
Mark Pearson, host of Iowa Public Television’s nationally syndicated Market to Market, died June 2 at grain and livestock farm in rural Madison County ...NPR hires two reporters, WXXI news director rappels down 21 stories, and more…
Leila Fadel, Cairo bureau chief for the Washington Post, signs on as NPR’s Cairo-based correspondent in July. She covered the Iraq War for almost ...Film explores influence of WBAI freeform pioneer Bob Fass
A documentary examines the legacy of the countercultural legend.Click and Clack are checking out but will keep chortling in repeats
NPR announced June 8 that Tom and Ray Magliozzi, hosts of the popular and long-running Car Talk, will lay down their wrenches ...Vince Gardino bound for orchestra post after NY Public Radio departure in July
Vince Gardino, New York Public Radio’s executive director of underwriting, is departing the station after 14 years to become executive director of ...Randy Feldman, at helm of WYES in New Orleans since 1990, to retire
Randy Feldman, president and g.m. of pubstation WYES in New Orleans since 1990, will step down at the end of the year, ...
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